I've been writing a lot more personal things lately, and what with travel stories and pictures and everything else, I don't feel comfortable leaving it for everyone to see. I will leave things about my stories and story updates and non personal stuff unlocked, but if you want to read all the other stuff, comment to be added.

Like Mulder said, it's not paranoia if you are right.

*stealing this from lerdo *
Fic To-Finish List:
1. Speak
2. A Phone Call Away
3. A Day with the Squints
4. Inheritance
5. The Perfect Life?
6. Ghosts of Yesterday
7. Ship of Dreams
8. In the Dark
9. Expressway to the Couch (abandoned)
10. Tempus Revertat
11. A Single Deadly Sin
12. Untitled Booth story
13. A Figure of Speech
14. Kissing You
15. Until the Dust Settles
16. The Cliche that Missed
17. Twelve Days After Christmas
18. Forgotten Fairytale
19. Diamonds

 If you got anything to add/disagree on/comment on, feel free. 
So far my TV show list is:
Buffy season 7
Angel seasons 4-5 (though I'm still a bit iffy on this)
Bones past 4 episodes, though I'm just not feeling it
X-Files seasons 8-9
House
Veronica Mars
Dr. Who
Pushing Daisies
Joan of Arcadia
La Femme Nikita
Criminal Minds
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
American Dreams
Avatar: the Last Airbender
Friends
The Mentalist
Ed
Scrubs
The Office
How I Met Your Mother
True Blood
Supernatural
Merlin
Tudors season 2

Yeah, I know I'm forgetting a ton. So just comment or whatever. If you know a good place to watch it online (I usually use surfthechannel, but sometimes their episode list is rather scattered) then also please tell me. 

So...doing the 50 book challenge again. Not that I don't read 50 books (and usually more) anyway but *shrugs* Anyway, here's my list so far of reads. Any recs (classics, mindless reads, whatever) would be fab, as I always love good reads. And yes, I did steal most of these off some of your lists. Oh, and I would like to read some Hercule Poirot books (I've read a few) but there are tons of them. Any particular favorites of yours? ( Read more... )

So I joined this community called whedonland where there are teams for each of Joss's 4 shows (Angel, Buffy, Firefly, and Dollhouse). Each of the teams compete against each other to see who can get the most points and that team defeats the apocalypse, which happens every 4 months. You get points by completing tasks, writing fics or making graphics or answering trivia questions.

Anyway, I'm the leader of Team Angel, and we really need members. So please, PLEASE go to the member application place and put Angel as your first choice. We're feeling unloved at the moment. We have hot vampires who occasionally are or go evil, hot seers, hot ex watchers, hot demon hunters, hot lawyers, a demon karaoke bar, a green demon who sings and is generally awesome, cute baby scenes, prophesies, and much more. What more could you ask for?

Not sure how done I am with Harry Potter in general because a part of me will always treasure it and love it but:

As of this moment, I am DONE with the HPFF forums. DONE! (well okay, I might still play at the arcade, but that's it.)

Most of the awesome people have left, so what's mostly left are fucking idiotic brown nosing bastards. While this isn't the cause of me signing off, I am sick of the Harry/Hermione thread being full of people who basically go "OMG EWWW HHR IT'S LIKE INCEST RHR FTW I CAN'T SEE HHR HAPPENING AT ALL EVEN JKR SAID SO!!!!!!!" It also doesn't help that I am a Harry/Hermione loving HBP and DH and Twilight hating person while everyone else are Harry/Hermione hating DH and HBP Ron/Hermione Harry/Ginny Twilight loving people.

Sure, there are a lot of asshole Harry/Hermione shippers out there. Our ship often has a bad name because of them. And yet for some reason, I feel so fiercly protective of them, too. It's because I tend to feel over-protective over ships that get a hard time in fanon/canon. I feel the same exact way about Angel/Cordelia.

Another thing?  Phillip Pullman had a lovely quote about this that I can't find, but an author only has a certain amount of control over their work. Once it leaves their hands, it is free for people to interpret it in different ways. J.K. Rowling might have meant for Draco Malfoy to be a character everyone hates, but there are many MANY people out there who love him. It doesn't mean that they are wrong or that she's wrong. What you take out of a book or a movie or a TV show or a CD is going to be different than what I take out of it. It doesn't mean that I'm wrong or you're wrong.

ETA-this site is one of many sites that makes me pissed off and I sometimes (very rarely but on occasion) take it out on the fandom/author/other people. I apologize if this was ever the case for you. I really don't hate J.K. Rowling or the first 5 books or anything else I might have said at one point or another. I just feel frustrated sometimes at various parts of the fandom, and since I don't usually have a place to put that frustration, it comes out in the worst way possible.

this is a wonderful rape discussion guidelines post. It's really well thought out and well-phrased.

Obviously this is a sensitive subject, so if this kind of thing bothers you, I wouldn't check it out.

amilyn linked me to this when I was complaining about some readers and how it no longer gives me pleasure to update a story that I wrote at age 11 or 12 in a fandom that I am no longer really involved in. Unfortunately, every time I announce I'm going to take a break, every time I announce that I am done with a story, every time it takes me ages to update, I get a lot of negative reviews and messages and such. Seriously, my writing, people. So yeah, this link makes me feel so much better.




link
My only problem now is how tempted I feel to respond with, "Sophie is NOT YOUR BITCH"

You know what? I think I am done with some of my stories. If I feel inspired to finish or update them, great. But I am done with forcing myself into updating, because it's just not happening. And my readers are just going to have to deal with that.

Hopefully this point of view lasts.

What happened to goteamfiction.com? It had some nice Cordy/Angel stories...

I wrote the site and then I wrote the girl telling her that I had written the site and that I wouldn't hesitate to take further actions against her if I had to. The admin then wrote me this:

I'll delete everything right way.
Just so you know she said that her account was this also.
http://www.harrypotterfanfiction.com/viewuser.php?showuid=57072
and her user name on portkey is evilrubberducky.
Sorry for this.

Um yeah, those are me just on older, lamer usernames. Thanks for trying to take me down with you, bitch. God, now I'm all paranoid about my writing. At least the site took them down no problem. If I had to fight hard to get them down, I would be even more pissed off.

I honestly don't understand the point. I wrote those stories and I worked hard on them, so It pleases me to see them up and get reviews. But this girl, she didn't work at all. What pleasure can it possibly give her to see someone else's work with someone else's reviews? Not to mention that she must like my writing at least a little bit (because I don't think she would have plagiarized something she hated) but why would you do that to an author you admire? It's so rude and disrespectful and not a great way to show that you like their writing. 

Aaaaand I'm probably a little insane for doing this as I'm feeling a bit sensitive writing wise right now but:

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

I'm definitely an author. Because I've just caught my stories being plagiarized on this Harry/Hermione site. Same name, all of my Harry Potter stories posted (minus one of them) posted there. The site glitched for a moment giving all of my stories the same posting date which creeped me out for a second because it told me that Missing Her was posted before it was ever written. Then I pressed refresh and the dates made sense.

They say that imitation is a form of flattery, and it could be because I'm already having a shitty day, but fuck, I'm pissed. I contacted the site, so hopefully eveything turns out okay. 

Yeah, so I made a DreamWidth account. I was curious what all the fuss was about! Anyway, if you want to add me, I'm LadySophieKitty there as well cuz I'm original like that. 

Dear readers,
I'm sorry I haven't updated any of my stories since November. I really am. I'm quite aware of the fact and I hate it and man I wish I could update every day. But I can't control writer's block, I can't control that I don't have the energy to write, I can't control the fact that I have things going on in my life that makes it so that sometimes, I don't even WANT to write.

I miss writing a lot. What you don't seem to get is that flaming me? Yeah, it honestly doesn't help. My hiatus from the Harry Potter fandom almost two years ago when I read and despised the last two books wouldn't have gone on quite as long if some idiot hadn't tried to blackmail me into writing. Want to know what occasionally works to get that writing spark to spark again? Amazing reviews. That's why when I usually write a review or a message to someone to get them to update, I usually include a gentle reminder they haven't updated, a ton of compliments, and the fact that I understand about RL and things getting in the way. It's even worked a few times!

But leaving me reviews such as the ones I've mentioned in the past or my newest, csn't cha hurry up already?, doesn't make me want to write.

Love,
Sophie

So come join the madness! We have porn! And awesome prompts/authors/responses.

I've posted this before but I didn't have an f-list to speak of then so:
The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other.

I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

On Friday I went over to my friend's house and her family ordered pizza for dinner. On Saturday I didn't eat breakfast, and had Mac and Cheese and ice-cream for lunch and then Dad took us out for pizza at dinner. On Sunday I didn't eat breakfast and had canned soup for lunch and In 'N Out (a fast food chain popular in California) for dinner. Today I'll have muffins for breakfast and a bean and cheese burrito for lunch.

I go.

So I was watching Bones season 1 this morning which had me craving for some good BB fics. Usually I stalk the favorites page of authors I like but this time I was insane and decided to search through The Pit. Cramps are making me bitchy so yay mockage post.
( Beware The Pit )

Sorry for the spam, but I just realized this is my 3rd LJ birthday! I created it, posted a really angsty entry, and then proceeded to forget about this LJ for about a year and a half. But then I started stalking finding the LJs of authors I liked and eventually started posting again every once in a while, and then several times a month! After about 4 months of being active, I decided I had to have a paid account because I'm a crazy icon collector and 15 icons was way too little for me.  Now I go crazy if I don't visit LJ at least once a day! 
Thanks y'all for making my experience so wonderful. 
Sophie